Amanda Riddell
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It's baffling that people are saying 'what's the transphobic statement?' To them, being told to be a man at the office is perfectly...
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Amanda Riddell
5 hours ago1 min read
Chloe and Marama
I refuse to join the party because I felt insulted by that drag hui. Like, I've never been keen, and that was basically the end of my...
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Amanda Riddell
19 hours ago1 min read
internalised transphobia
One of the suckiest things is watching these videos since I grew the beard and seeing precisely why all those people were shielding their...
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Amanda Riddell
23 hours ago1 min read
Palestine protests
I'm not intentionally avoiding them; I block my news feeds, so unless I'm plugged into a particular activist group, I don't really see...
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Amanda Riddell
1 day ago2 min read
'gay bars'
Much like with music, it's taken for granted that venues that explicitly service the rainbow community also sell alcohol. I think, in...
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Amanda Riddell
1 day ago1 min read
To Red Scare
There is only one option: CEASE AND DESIST. No Tina films. Red Scare's band simply isn't allowed to sing with me BECAUSE they tried to...
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Amanda Riddell
1 day ago1 min read
Surviving puberty
One of the things that helped was using online character creation tools, such as the South Park character creator and those various...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago3 min read
The Big Smoke
Well, as I said, bipolar is cyclical and that was probably an up phase. But, despite my embarrassment, I think that film actually does...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago1 min read
Going touring
I'm starting to change my mind now that my mood is up. Lots of questions. One of the key ones: how is my guitar is going to be...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago2 min read
Do I identify as gay?
I famously and defiantly don't, but it's slightly more complicated and nuanced in parlance. For me, I'd identify as gay if I thought...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago1 min read
boot her out of the party?
Well, as established, the hate hui took place when Tory was an independent. So, in a way, it's like she dragged that baggage with her...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago1 min read
Hurt feelings
Look, this is how y'all came off to me: 'oh, poor Amanda! her second puberty sucks because she doesn't know enough about how to be a...
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Amanda Riddell
2 days ago1 min read
To Tory, Nadine and Chloe
You can't persuade me to come to Question Time unless I get an apology. Weeded Out dies TODAY. Tory admits that she was transphobic...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
To the fairweather 'friends'
No pops evenings of any kind. No performances. Again, I'm trying to (finally) get taken seriously as an opera composer. Here's the basic...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago2 min read
Nostalgia for the past
That's the meat of the bullshit that VUW has tried to ladle onto my plate. Presuming their bullshit is for real and they expect, nay,...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
Marama
Another point I'd make is that there's been a consistent phrasing that suggests that the last 5 years of being trans in the streets...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago2 min read
Stop being rude to me, Nadine.
- I stand by my statement. It wasn't her electorate office, and I didn't go and talk to her. I didn't take any photos. I took notes. So,...
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
internal politics
Probably my least favourite thing about being an activist is getting sucked into the internal politics of either TPM or the Greens. ...
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago1 min read
The negotiation has closed
Instant and complete cessation occurs at this point, VUW and other 'stakeholders' in Weeded Out. Your claims of authorship were rubbished....
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